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In my university's juggling club, two discrete camps of jugglers emerged: The "social" jugglers (partner juggling, much chatting, tricks more playful and less t
by sieste 6y ago
In my university's juggling club, two discrete camps of jugglers emerged: The "social" jugglers (partner juggling, much chatting, tricks more playful and less technical) and the "mathematical" jugglers (practicing on their own, hard technical tricks, don't talk to me). The two camps mapped quite nicely on the respective faculties as well (HUM/STEM). I always thought juggling is one of these activities that really amplifies the introvert/extrovert and people-oriented/thing-oriented personality traits. Anyway, one of the two camps was really into site swaps and the other not at all.
- nojs 6y agoThe thing about juggling is that technical difficulty doesn’t map super well to how impressive the tricks look to untrained crowds. Beyond a certain point the extra difficulty is only really noticeable to other jugglers.
- tomjuggler 6y agoHa that made me laugh. I'm a professional juggler who now codes for a living. Because the whole people-oriented thing isn't working out that well this year..
- imurray 6y agoThere's also math-inclined partner juggling. See the "social siteswaps" DVD, and https://passist.org/ https://passist.org/ for example. Oh, and of course: https://www.juggle.me.uk/passing/ https://www.juggle.me.uk/passing/ (RIP Aidan Burns)
- unhammer 6y agoOutside of University, a third crowd gathered at the bottom of corridors and dilapidated stairwells, throwing whatever scraps they could find into the air or onto their bodies in whichever pattern would let them move onto a new one https://youtu.be/SVpQlNaDzW8?t=2020 https://youtu.be/SVpQlNaDzW8?t=2020 A siteswapper once tried(?) noting the patterns: https://youtu.be/Aldm6n7Sg4M?t=2231 https://youtu.be/Aldm6n7Sg4M?t=2231